psychopathology treatments for phobias FLOODING

Question 1

STRENGTH,HAMBURGER, COST EFFECTIVE

Answer 1

A strength is that it is a cost-effective treatment for treating phobias.
Research has suggested that it is comparable to other treatments like SD and cognitive therapies (Oubgrin 2011) in terms of effectiveness and it QUICKER.
This is a strength because [patients are treated quicker and more cost effectively for health services .

Question 2

LIMITATION.HAMBRUGER, TRAUMATIC DOH

Answer 2

Flooding is highly traumatic and causes high levels of anxiety in patients.
Although patients provide informed consent, many don’t complete the treatments because it’s too stressful therefore sometimes it becomes a waste of time.

Question 3

LIMITATION,HAMBURGER, ONLY GOOD FOR SIMPLE PHOBIAS

Answer 3

Although good for simple phobias, it’s not very effective for other types like social phobias or agoraphobia.
Some suggest that it is irrational thinking that causes social phobias not the unpleasant experiences or learning through classical conditioning.
So more complex phobias cannot be treated so might respond better to CBT which treats irrational thinking.

Question 4

LIMITATION,HAMBURGER, REPLACED

Answer 4

A limitation is that when one phobia disappears, another emerges.
For example, the fear of spiders might become replaced by a fear of trains. This symptom substitution may suggest that flooding isn’t an effective treatment.